Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland school shooter, will be formally sentenced early next month.
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.Here's what we know: Nikolas Cruz, the now 24-year-old who admitted to killing 17 people in Florida'sA jury on Thursday recommended he be, a decision which enraged many of the victims' families who said Cruz being allowed to live is not justice served.
But as far as the sentence itself, the jury's recommendation is final, Broward County Public Defender Gordon Weekes said in a Thursday news conference, adding in the state, "victims have a constitutional right to be heard at every stage of the proceeding." He will likely remain in county custody for a couple weeks after his sentence is handed down before he is then placed in the custody of Florida's Department of Corrections and transported to one of several reception centers in the state.He will spend several weeks at the reception center "getting physical examinations, mental health examinations," Johnson said.
According to a corrections department handbook, there are several custody classifications of inmates, among them, close custody for inmates who "must be maintained within an armed perimeter or under direct, armed supervision when outside of a secure perimeter." "I hope he has the fear in him, every second of his life, just the way he gave that fear to every one of our loved ones, who he murdered," she said. "He should live in that fear, and he should be afraid every second of the day of his life."Parents of Parkland victims, including Schachter, have pointed to parts of life Cruz will still get to experience while in prison their children were robbed of.
"And you can see the argument families saying, 'We don't get to do that,' '' Johnson added. "And it's understandable."The corrections department also did not answer CNN's question about what kind of mental health treatment Cruz may receive while in prison.
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